Day 12 - May 4, 2009

Life Guard Station 26, Ocean Park, Santa Monica CA

trash collected for 20 min.

est. lbs. today - 5

est. lbs. to date - 81.5
Just a beautiful shell someone hadn't disturbed yet when I saw it. 
Are plastic bags a reason to smile? Not if you're a turtle. They eat them thinking that they are their primary food, jellyfish.

"Besides plastic bags, the turtles had swallowed fishing lines, balloon fragments, spoons, candy wrappers, and more." That's a quote from this article. If you look at the article, you'll also see an incredible slideshow of Sea Turtles (one of my all time favorite animals), and some of the pictures include people helping them. It's not all doom and gloom folks. Nope, not at all.

Day 11 - May 1, 2009

Life Guard Station 26, Ocean Park, Santa Monica CA

trash collected for 20 min.

est. lbs. today - 5

est. lbs. to date - 81.5

This is a picture I found attached to this article. Biologists have called for a ban on balloons. You can see why they might feel that way. I find balloons on the beach every day.

Here's a picture of a pretty blue balloon I found today. 

Day 10, April 30, 2009

Life Guard Station 26, Ocean Park, Santa Monica

trash collected for 20 min.

est. lbs today - 2.5

est. lbs to date - 76.5
The view of the Santa Monica Pier. 

For information about our world famous pier at the end of route 66

click here
I'm just glad there's a cap still on it. Seeing this worried me. What can you say really, except that I've found some dangerous stuff on a beautiful day, with plenty of people walking around barefoot enjoying a stroll on the beach.